Re: ComputerChips magazine

Nathan Olberding <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.pdxlug
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Okay, can we end this thread yet?
> 
> :-)

Just about...

I'm still a little confused. Who are PLUG? Are there interminglers?
Are PLUGgers human? Do they wear hooded robes and meet under bridges
by candlelight to commit script-kiddie style discussion?

On 7/28/05, Robby Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Matt King said:
> > Russell Senior wrote:
> >> Just to show I am not always funny, and for the benefit of newcomers,
> >> the issue was *never* about having two LUGs in the same town.  There
> >> were more than two well before PDXLUG appeared.  It has *always* been
> >> about PDXLUG's use of the words "Portland Linux User Group" which were
> >> already in use by PLUG.  And while I've never characterized the
> >> confusion as "great", it does seem persistent.  I try to take note of
> >> it when I find it.  Some others try to ignore or actively misrepresent
> >> it.
> >
> > http://www.pdxlinux.org does not have the phrase "Portland Linux User
> > Group" anywhere, only "Portland Linux/Unix Group" or PLUG.
> >
> > The name was changed, you can't also call it "Portland Linux User Group"
> > too. Pick one or the other.
> >
> > It's not like anyone in PDXLUG tries to intentionally confuse or mislead
> > newcomers that we are PLUG. That has never happened and I doubt ever
> > will. I would venture to say that most PDXLUGers would rather not be
> > associated at all, anyway.
> >
> 
> Matt,
> 
> Thanks for updating the <title> tag on the site. I know how much harm that
> caused PLUG. They say that their meetings are missing 20 people[1].
> Hopefully those people will find their way to one of our meetings now...
> and stop wandering the streets in search of the ONE TRUE LUG of PDX!
> 
> [1] http://rubyurl.com/ZFXSF
> 
> Okay, can we end this thread yet?
> 
> :-)
> 
> -Robby
> 
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